Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:02:14 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>,
       Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
       Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>, isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de
Subject: Re: Can we remove pci_find_device() yet?
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> e.g. set some global variable that forbids device removal
> and warn in the kernel log. In theory this could be also
> done per device, but I guess that would be more effort.

There is a simpler way to do that, which is to just leak a reference in
the hisax_find_pci_device hack. The pci_dev won't be going anywhere then.
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